Advocate Sheraz Zaka, the amicus curie (assistant of the court), argued that Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923 covered the disease of silicosis, a lung disease, but pulmonary Koch was not included in the third schedule of the Act.

For those who had sought to uphold the dignity of meaningful work, then, workmen's compensation signaled and gave shape to a crisis for the nineteenth-century work ethic: In a world in which managers controlled even the details of production, it was no longer clear that labor could meaningfully be said to do any moral work.

Contains noted works on the topic of worker's compensation, particularly the 12-volume Larson's Workmen's Compensation, the 3-volume Larson's Desk Edition, as well as Occupational Injuries and Illnesses.

In 1950, they were brought into Social Security; in 1966, many categories of them were guaranteed the federal minimum wage; and in the mid-1980s, the Texas legislature brought their work under the state's workmen's compensation plan.

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